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Friday, November 30, 2012

eeeek! I am so excited that it's Friday. I am cropping with friends tonight and making cards for our new catalog - woohooo....looking forward to it!! We are officially done with our CHA product line up and let me just tell you - you're gonna freak when you see what we have been up to!

Today I have a video to share. If you check it out, you will see one of our newest stamp set that releases TONIGHT - at midnight Eastern time. Please visit Virtual Smooches to view our new video.

Here is a fabulous card that was created by our latest SPARKS challenge winner. She rocked our color challenge! Congrats Lynn Put!

I hope your weekend is great!
Thanks for making us a part of your day ;)
xoxo
kim

Thursday, November 29, 2012

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the Paper Smooches
December stamp release with you! The three NEW clear stamp sets will
be available to purchase at 12:01am, Eastern time...on December 1st.
You will find them HERE.

To add extra fun to our blog hop...we are offering up a prize! Just
leave a comment on any of the five design team blogs listed below for
your chance to win one of the three new stamp sets! (you do not need to
comment on all blogs to qualify) You have until midnight MT on Friday,
November 30th to leave a comment. Please check all five blogs on
Saturday, December 1st to see if you are one of the five lucky winners.

To increase your chances of winning:
1. Leave a comment on this blog post
2. Tell us that you Facebooked about our blog hop
3. Tell us that you Tweeted about our hop
4. Tell us that you posted on your blog about our blog hop
(which means that you have up to four chances to win on each blog)

I have a giveaway her as well - double YAY!

I am showing off the new set called WOOFERS & TWEETERS. I happened to find a couple of fun dog theme products to include with our new stamp set as a prize. Simply leave a comment for your chane to win. Same deadline as the one listed above for the design team blogs. The prize includes three bone erasers, a bone charm ring and the new stamp set!

...and here is my card:

When I was tweaking my photo, I had one of those "what was I thinking" moments! My plan was to make it look like the dog is trotting along the sidewalk, but I am not sure that it translated very well. Now he looks like he's hanging in the air by a string, instead of a leash - ugh! smacking my head!!

I am thrilled that you are here! Thank you soooo much for joining us. Please make sure to stop by all of our designer's blogs. I think our team is breathtakingly fabulous!

Emily combined stamps from Pip Squeaks and He Said, She Said. Wicked cute, isn't it? Her coloring is amazing and her simple design is perfect!! The way she accented words in her stamped sentiment is just WOW!!

Laurie's shabby card is awesome! It's cool how much those colors really pop on a kraft base :) Laurie's coloring and design is perfect as well. Both GREAT cards!!

Heidi created custom patterned paper by stamping the small solid cup in different colors. Love her simple design...GREAT card!!

I hope you had a wonderful holiday week. I got a TON of work completed, so this morning I am feeling a huge sense of accomplishment. Every day from Wednesday on felt like Saturday, which was very cool :)

Our blog hop is this Thursday - we are prepping for our next stamp release! Here's a sneak peek...care to guess the theme?

Friday, November 23, 2012

Nope, I wasn't up at the crack of dawn to take advantage of the specials today...I slept in since my husband has today off. I am not a fan of shopping any time of the year, so Black Friday is not my thing. Now Cyber Monday - that's calling my name.

I'd like to offer specials on our stamps, but we value our stores and think they are pretty great! So we don't offer them so they can on occasion. I heard there are some PS stamps on sale today. Check out our stores listing to see if any of them appeal to you.

It looks like I already shared the winner of the SPARKS challenge this week, but skipped over the winner from last week. So sorry Jen. Posting on Monday threw me off :)

Jen's card is VERY cool and clever! The challenge was to use Topography on a card and she rocked this challenge!! LOVE the string!!

Thursday, November 22, 2012

CONGRATS! Your card is super fresh and wicked FUN! I cam't wait to see what you do with our newest stamp release!

Our January guest designer search begins on December 6th. Please,
please give us another try. It gets harder and harder to choose every
month - you are all amazing!!

And to all of my USA friends - Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. I hope your day is beyond wonderful.

I am thankful for SO MANY things
Naturally I am most thankful for my family, but you are included in there as well. We love our customers, blog readers, stores, designers and friends. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for all of the love and support you have given to us.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Tuesday is a "cool down" day for me. It seems like my Monday's are full to the brim since I have a whole new fresh to-do list to tackle. Yesterday was CRAY-ZEEE busy but oh so fun! Monday's are my favorite day of the week :) I am looking forward to some creative time with my BFF today.

Let's get to the sharing...

Don't you love the shape of Laurie's card? This would be a great card for anyone...but a college student is the perfect match, I think. Did you notice that she created her own patterned paper with the solid coffee bean? L*O*V*E!

Emily's card compliments Laurie's card - love when that happens :)
and awwwww, how stinkin' clever! I think we all could use an "escape" sometimes, LOL. Too fun!!

I hope you all have a great day!
Thanks for stopping by :)
smooches!!
Kim

Monday, November 19, 2012

Hello friends!
I have a winner's name to share and two darling Freezy Fellas cards to share:
Same image - same sentiment
Heidi's card is put together with cool blues...and created in a shabby style - VERY cool card by the way :)

Kalyn's card is full of color and playful elements. Two totally different looks but both are totally fabulous!!

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Pamela Ho is back with us this week as our guest with a card that makes me swooon! She used the mistletoe stamp perfectly :) I love how she colored the snowpeople and popped them up! Her fussy-cutting is perfect too...great card!!

Teri has impeccable design skills. Love all of the sweet little touches she adds...and the sentiment stickers look awesome!

Our current guest designer search is in full swing. The deadline is November 21st and HERE are the details

Tomorrow is PS Patrol day - woohoooo!! I can't wait to share the outstanding cards that I found at the Splitcoast Paper Smooches gallery.

Friday, November 9, 2012

I am so grateful that you have stopped by today :) I have 2 wonderful cards to share today. One is from our SPARKS challenge winner and the other is by Anni, our last guest designer. Be prepared to be inspired :)

Rochelle has been on my radar for a long time, so I am glad that she was chosen as our winner. I think she is a fantastic designer - just check out this card! LOVE the bold yellow base...it really makes the elements POP! It's so clever that she replaced the letter "O" with cleaning supplies. This card is just dang fun!!

Our current SPARKS challenge is a "trend watch" challenge. Use topography on your design. Our sparks designers are amazing. You will get the gist if you visit the challenge blog to see what they have created. I hope you play along.

and Anni is back with us to share another darling card. Even though it's technically FALL, we are still in the 90's so I am soaking it up as long as I can. This whimsical card is pure cuteness!! LOVE the cut white edge on the stamped images. They really stand out!

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Guest Designers will receive 2 NEW stamp sets, get a blog badge and will have their name and projects featured here on the PS blog for 4-5 weeks (depending on how many weeks there are in the month).

You will have approx. two weeks to show us your talent! You can submit as many projects as you like and past submissions are welcome. Guest designers are not chosen randomly. We will be looking for designers who stand out in one (or more) of the following categories:

great use of color

outstanding design

mad coloring skills

fun paper piecing

pure cleverness

You will need to use a Paper Smooches stamp or any of our FREE digi stamps. You can submit to our call with "old and new" projects...and projects that you create for our SPARKS Challenge are perfectly acceptable..

The deadline is Wednesday, November 21st.

Our December guest designer will be announced on Thursday, November 22nd (Thanksgiving)
If you have tried out in the past..I hope you reapply - We LOVE looking at your beautiful creations.

We are proudly sponsoring the Cameo Spotlight blog this week. They have one mega-talented team in place to help inspire you. The challenge is colored inspired and it's a fabulous combo! I hope you play along. :)

Friday, November 2, 2012

are a great day for me to share a project with you, but today I have a treat! A darling card by Anni and a card by our SPARKS Challenge winner. I am going to start posting our winner's card on Friday's along with a card from me or possibly something else :)

First up - Anni! She knocked my socks off as our guest last month. Tell me this is not pure-cuteness...ack - s fun! LOVE the lights on the wire. What a clever girl :)

Congrats! Please send an e-mail to info(at)papersmoochesstamps(dot)com and let me know your address so that I can send your prize asap. THANK YOU all fr sharing your incredible thank you cards. That gallery is full of eye candy!

Click HERE to play along with our challenge!

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Hello everyone! My name is Kim Hughes and I am the owner and Illustrator for Paper Smooches. I LOVE sharing my art with the world & I hope my fun and unique designs make you smile. Thank you for visiting us, I am so happy you are here.